John C Davis

John C Davis - The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in the body of this work, is the grandson of that grand old pioneer of pioneers George C. Yount, and son of John C. Davis, Jr., and Elizabeth Yount. He was born at the Yount homestead, March 8, 1849, and was educated in San Francisco in the primary studies, and completed his course in Swiss and German colleges, traveling back and forth until 1868. He then came to Napa County and located permanently on his present ranch of six. hundred acres, near Oakville, where he has since remained, being engaged in farming and grape-growing. July 5,1870, he was married in Germany to Miss Margaretta Claus, a native of Saxony, Germany, and their children are Daisy, George, Susie and Elizabeth.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, May 2007 Page 446

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